UPDATE ON THE RRAZZ ROOM IN S.F.: We mentioned an issue or two back that the very popular RRAZZ ROOM at THE HOTEL NIKKO (222 Mason Street, San Francisco, CA) had suddenly announced that they would be moving from their current location on the 1st of January. Now we have a little more information. Rrazz Entertainment, the company that runs the Rrazz Room cabaret in San Francisco's Hotel Nikko, has filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court claiming the hotel and its general manager wouldn't extend the club's lease because the shows were bringing too many African Americans into the hotel. The suit claims that hotel and it's principals breached the contract with Rrazz Entertainment and violated California's Unruh Civil Rights Act. The club's owners, who presented jazz, cabaret and R&B performers since opening the 190-seat club in 2008, are seeking compensatory damages of at least $1 million and triple damages, as well as punitive ones, under the Unruh Civil Rights Act, having been denied a five-year lease extension to which their company was entitled. The cabaret will close after a New Year's Eve concert by singer Kim Nalley's band. According to the complaint, the hotel had asked Rrazz to "change its musical programming to reduce the number of rhythm-and-blues acts because defendants did not want the Rrazz Room to attract to the Hotel Nikko a certain 'demographic' that rhythm-and-blues acts were drawing." A spokeswoman for Hotel Nikko USA said the lawsuit's claims were untrue. The RRAZZ owners are opening a new club called Live at the Rrazz in January in the AMC movie theater complex at 1000 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco. The Jefferson Starship will play at the first show.
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